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| Volume |
I |
| Subdivision |
Subdivision 18 / Relations with the Christian Churches |
| Part |
Not applicable |
| Section |
18.05 (PID-PW Series No. 15) |
| Title |
"The German Monists Organization" (.PDF) / CONFIDENTIAL |
| Pages |
6 |
| Pages Supplemental |
Plus an unnumbered cover page. |
| Date |
June 1945 |
| Language |
English; the translator is identified as "O.W.I., R&A Section, Translator's Unit." |
| Author |
Franz Hesse |
| Witness |
Not applicable |
| Other Names |
Ernst Haeckel; Spinoza; Hume; Locke; Comte; Feuerbach; Darwin; Nietzsche; Helmholtz; Goering; Hermann Sudermann; Prof. Unna; Prof. Immanuel Herrmann; Prof. Robert Reimann; Wilhelm Boelsche; Prof. Friedrich Jodl; Pfarrer August Kalthoff; Prof. Theodor Hartwig; Prof. Wilhelm Ostwald; Prof. August Forel; Prof. Felix Linke; Prof. Heinrich Schmidt; Prof. M. H. Baege; Prof. Arnold Dodel; Herbert Eulenberg; Dr. Graf Arco; Dr. Rudolf Goldscheid; Dr. Max Deri; Dr. Paul Wolski; Dr. Raabe; Prof. Heinrich Schmidt; Albert Bessner; Rudolf Virschow; Friedrich Schiller; Hitler; von Papen; Dr. Max Seber; Dr. Georg Kramer; Otto Knopf; Ernst Mach; Albert Einstein; Joergen Joergensen; Richard von Mises; Rudolf Carnap; Hans Reichenbach; Niels Bohr; Philip Frank; Moritz Schlick; Bertrand Russell; H. G. Wells |
| Other Dates |
July 1933; May 1935; January 1938; October 1938; May 1939; 10 March 1945 |
| Abstract |
This document is a brief history of the German Monist Organization from 1933 to 1939, and recounts how the community of free-thinkers managed to survive and communicate, through various carefully-camouflaged publications, despite being constantly scrutinized by the Gestapo. The author's main contention is that the Catholic and Protestant Churches were not the only religious or philosophical organizations to suffer at the hands of the Nazis, and that their respective claims to having a privileged place in the reconstruction of Germany is both unwarranted and dangerous. This document is a typewritten copy of good to fair quality on slightly browning paper. |
| Keywords |
Persecution of Christian Churches; Crimes against humanity; Free Masons; Free-Thinkers; Non-Confessionals; Christian sects; German Monists; Persecution of unorthodox thought; Monistische Monatsheft; Die Stimme der Vernunft; Natur und Geist; Natural philosophy; German Faith Movement; Deutsche Glaubensbewegung; Positivism; Vienna Circle |